Legislative reports on the Balearic Islands. Second half of 2021. “The difficulties in agreeing upon a stable funding model for the language system in teaching and healthcare”

Over the course of the period under review, linguistic rights and obligations in the fields of education and healthcare have, once more, been the areas witnessing the greatest controversy. The language-related principles contained in the draft Law on Education currently before the Parliament of the Balearic Islands and the cases of language discrimination in healthcare have once again been the subject of debate between different parliamentary groups. They have also been the focus of actions and proposals by civic organisations defending the Catalan language. All this coincides with the upholding by the Supreme Court of the invalidity of the Decree governing the language competences of statutory staff of the Balearic Islands Health Service and also with the much-needed initiative spearheaded by the Directorate General for Language Policy and the Chief Justice of the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands to bolster the use of Catalan in the justice system.